Employment-At-Will Doctrine

Employment-At-Will Doctrine

Employment-at-will is a law that stipulate that as long as a employee is not been discriminated he or she can loose their job and any given time. This paper aims to analyze 8 different scenarios and determine whatever or not an employ can lose his or her job based in some behaviors, actions, or inactions that had lead to a somewhat hostile, aggressive, and even disrespectful work environment. At the same time the paper will address the importance of whistleblower police for any organization. While the employment-at-will allows employers to terminate their staff at any moment, at the same time it protect the staff from any type of discrimination.

Employment-At-Will

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (2013), most of the countries around the world permit the termination of employment with a legitimate cause. However, in the United States is different; employ/employer relationship assume to be "at will" in all United States with the exception of Montana. At will refers to ability of an employer to dismiss any employee and any given time without any reason as long as is not for unlawful reason (any type of discrimination, or retaliation due of something done or said). At the same time any employee can have the right to leave a job at any given time without any reason and the employer cannot take legal actions to avoid it or because of it. Arrangements of the employ hiring agreement can be made based on the at-will doctrine include employee poor work performance, misconduct, or economic limitations (NCSL, 2013).

Employment-At-Will Exceptions

There are some common exceptions to the employment-at-will law; public policy, implied by contract, illegal discrimination, retaliation, ...

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.... Companies with whistleblower policy are view as high ethical and with string moral values that protect the ones that act and speak up when things are done illegally or for personal gain (Newsroom Indiana University, 2009).

References

Halbert , T., & Ingulli, E. (2012). Law and Ethics in the Business Environment (Vol. 7). Mason, OH: Cengage Learning.

National Conference of State Legislatures (2013). The At-Will Presumption and Exceptions to the Rule. Retrieved from

http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/labor/at-will-employment-overview.aspx

Newsroom Indiana University (2009). New Article Examines Benefits of Internal Whistle- Blowing. Retrieved from

http://www.newswise.com/articles/new-article-examines-benefits-of-internal-whistle- blowing

Wofford Collage (2012). Ethical Theories. Retrieved from

http://webs.wofford.edu/kaycd/ethics/